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WASHINGTON, Feb 3- The U.S. government said on Tuesday that the operators of Corinthian Colleges will agree to provide $480 million in debt forgiveness to students who took out risky private loans. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Department of Education also said that ECMC Group, the new owner for a number of the colleges, has agreed to cease...

Total enrollments at Apollo's flagship University of Phoenix dropped 20.4 percent to 592,853 in the quarter ended Nov. 30. Corinthian Colleges Inc and ITT Educational Services are under the U.S. government's scrutiny over their student loans and placement rates. Phoenix, Arizona-based Apollo forecast revenue of $580 million- $595 million for the second...

Nov 20- Corinthian Colleges Inc said it would sell 56 campuses under its Everest and WyoTech brands to non-profit education provider ECMC Group Inc as part of an agreement with the U.S. education department. The sale of the assets will raise $24 million, half of which will go to the education department under a deal Corinthian signed with the department in July in...

WASHINGTON, Nov 6- A group representing for-profit colleges on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration's new gainful employment rules that aim to protect students from lackluster degrees and huge debt loads. The Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, representing 1,400 institutions, filed the suit at the U.S. District...

Oct 30- The U.S. Department of Education will introduce new regulations next year in its latest attempt to improve the job prospects of those graduating from for-profit colleges and universities. "They dropped the cohort default so people say it's less bad than it was three months ago," Steve Gunderson, chief executive of the Association of Private Sector...

Oct 30- The U.S. Department of Education will introduce stricter regulations next year in its latest attempt to improve the job prospects of those graduating from for-profit colleges and universities. For-profit institutions, including Apollo Education Group Inc, Corinthian Colleges Inc and DeVry Education Group Inc, have been struggling to attract new...

*Q2 new enrollments fall 8.1 pct vs forecast of 10-15 pct. Oct 17- ITT Educational Services Inc said an increase in scholarships helped it sign up more students than previously forecast in the quarter ended June, offering some relief to the struggling U.S. for-profit education sector. Shares of other for-profit education providers, including Corinthian...

Oct 17- ITT Educational Services Inc said it signed up more students than it forecast in the quarter ended June 30, more than doubling its market value and offering some relief to the U.S. for-profit education sector. The data, the first from ITT since May, drove up shares of other for-profit colleges including Corinthian Colleges Inc, which also nearly doubled.

Sept 19- For-profit college operator ITT Educational Services Inc disclosed on Friday that it may face civil charges by the U.S. securities regulator following investigations related to two private education loan programs for its students.

LOS ANGELES, Sept 8- The collapse of Corinthian Colleges Inc. and the abrupt shutdown of several other for-profit campuses this year have left tens of thousands of students wondering about the future of their education- and their debt.

U.S. stock index futures pared their gains Thursday following policy announcements from both the Bank of England and the European Central Bank and as investors digested a pair of mixed economic reports.

Graham Tuckwell is making news for giving away his children's inheritance. CNBC's Robert Frank takes a look at children of the wealthy like Paris Hilton and Ivanka Trump to see if money has "poisoned" them.